Significant Objects
This nice note appears in the current 826 National newsletter:
Continue reading...Tuesday, March 9, 2010
Readers, we try to keep things interesting and surprising for you here at Significant Objects, not merely publishing great stories all the time, but throwing a curveball every now and again. We’ve done so by offering stories in comix form, by selling a Mystery Object, by holding a contest or two, by teaming up with [...]
Continue reading...Sunday, March 7, 2010
Book spines as wallpaper? That could happen, don’t you think? http://bit.ly/9zVwf3 # “It would seem that even attaching a known fictitious story to an object added enough meaning to warrant the price.” http://bit.ly/cWRmhw # “This anxiety has lead to the accumulation of way too many significant things.” Intriguing project at: http://thethingsikeep.blogspot.com/ # Best Antiques Roadshow segment ever? How much [...]
Continue reading...Saturday, February 27, 2010
Our data analysis to date has focused largely on Volume 1. But for fun, here’s an integrated top 25: The highest prices from the 150 (!) Significant Objects auctions that have closed to date. Questions? Comments? Let us know.
Continue reading...Thursday, February 25, 2010
If you missed this comment, the above courtesy of S.O. v1 contributor, Sung J. Woo. How do you know the check is a giant one? Simple:
Continue reading...Monday, February 22, 2010
Significant Objects v3 gets underway in a matter of hours, and we’re really excited. Proceeds from this cycle of 50 stories, objects, and auctions will benefit Girls Write Now, which mentors under-served or at-risk high school girls in New York City and as their site puts it, is “mentoring the next generation of women writers.” Our [...]
Continue reading...Sunday, February 21, 2010
We’ll start publishing Significant Objects v3 stories on Monday, and we’re excited about the strong lineup of writers and the Significance they’ve invented. Usually we don’t announce in advance which writer will be published on which day, but there’s a reason to make one exception for next week. On Friday we’ll publish a story by Jim [...]
Continue reading...Sunday, February 21, 2010
“Thousands of ‘tasteful’ banana items” being auctioned on eBay. http://bit.ly/digU8j (Not by us.) # “Thinking about the role of objects in fiction; how they carry meaning for the story.” http://bit.ly/da3wSS # “Products that have a story to tell.” Compares S.O. to Bobsmade, and Nike PhotoID. http://bit.ly/aLlOBI # Really great @studio360show piece with Rick and Megan Prelinger, about their [...]
Continue reading...Saturday, February 20, 2010
With the close of the last auction of Significant Objects v2 on Friday, we can now report that this cycle of 50 object/story auctions ended in $74.61 worth of flotsam selling for an impressive $2,244.11! We’ll crunch the numbers later, but that represents higher per-item prices than v1, which is pretty exciting. As you know, v2 [...]
Continue reading...Friday, February 19, 2010
The final auction from Significant Objects volume 2 ends today, and when it’s all over we’ll have raised over $2,200 for 826 National. How? As always, by pairing great creative writing with otherwise near-worthless thingamajigs. We’ll recap the v2 final numbers soon, but for now we just want to say THANK YOU to Chris Adrian, Kathryn [...]
Continue reading...Monday, February 15, 2010
We’re off duty today, thinking about our favorite presidents of all time, and watching the action in our shop. Speaking of which, the first auction in our collaboration with Underwater New York, Kangamouse + Chris Adrian Story, finished up at a whopping $162.50, which pushed us past $2,000 on the money raised for 826 National by [...]
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Thursday, March 11, 2010
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